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For me the hard part is keeping information together and going back to it later. Chat will always be too temporary to compare to more manageable things like E-

For me the hard part is keeping information together and going back to it later. Chat will always be too temporary to compare to more manageable things like E-mail. Was an entire conversation captured in the comments of a bug report? Was it captured in an E-mail thread? Was it discussed elsewhere? Or more likely, some crazy combination of all possible communication methods... E-mail is only a problem because no one seems to improve the tools anymore. (Or they get worse.) There is plenty of room to innovate, still. Why, for instance, can I not even edit my E-mail subject lines...must I be forever cursed just because someone chose "Re: " as their entire subject? Also, it's great that E-mail clients usually correctly guess what a thread should be but why can't I manually intervene and make or modify my own threads? Why aren't there literally dozens of more options for rules and filtering?

tootie 11y ago
Like Google Wave?
xorcist 11y ago
> Why, for instance, can I not even edit my E-mail subject lines A bit of a strange thing to say, and give no explanation. I think subject lines have been editable in every email system I've seen during the past 30 years.
- makecheck 11y ago
  Edit the subject of an E-mail that I receive. That way, it can be made more sensible to me, or categorized more automatically. (I typically use Apple Mail.)
  - xorcist 11y ago
    That makes more sense. I misunderstood. But I don't think the architecture of imap makes it difficult. You can edit any email at any time. Try it, and see if it makes a difference to your workflow.